Apparently Guns Do Kill People

Go read Elayne Boosler on guns over at The Huffington Post. It's got cutting wit, righteous indignation, and even some statistics to back it all up: all the elements of a classic post.

We are getting tired of prying your guns out of your cold dead hands.

Here's a news flash for you gun waving "real Americans": It's not about guns. It's about money. Follow the money. The NRA raises hundreds of millions of dollars by convincing you they are fighting for your "rights". Wake up. It's a business. Just like any other business, except with the help of their bought off representatives, they are the only UNREGULATED consumer product in America. What do they sell? FEAR. Fear, fake patriotism, and fake bravado, just like their commander in chief, President Custer. You're being played.

There's much, much more at the link, and it's well worth your time. At one point she refers to one of the most notorious pieces of nonsense rhetoric used by gun proponents:

"If we ban handguns only criminals will have guns." Well then let's not have any laws in America at all. No drug laws, no traffic laws, no laws at all, right? Duh.

The first time I heard this, it was phrased, "If they outlawed guns, only outlaws would have guns." I don't know where I came across my favorite rejoinder to that--probably a bumper sticker or something--but its logic is unassailable: "If the outlawed crime, only outlaws would be criminals."